Originally Posted By: Faldage
It wasn't till we basically dumped the concept of gender as a grammatical concept and transfered the word over to the biological realm that we lost track of its original meaning.


Let me rephrase my question: Concerning gender, what was the original meaning to which you refer in your post, if not its meaning in the biological realm? I always assumed it had a biological sense first, which was borrowed at some point by students of language.

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